462 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADEiE (brown). [Cei'opegia. 



45. C. campanulata, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 112. A small 

 bulbous-rooted plant (Don). Stem 6 in. high, h lin. thick, simple, 

 apparently not twining, pubescent in the upper part, 1-2-flowered. 

 Leaves erect, subsessile, IJ-lJ in. long, |-1 lin. broad, linear, acute, 

 tapering at the base, minutely scaberulous along the margins and on 

 the midrib beneath. Flowers terminal ; pedicel of the detached flower 

 broken, 2 lin. long, thinly puberulous at the apex. Sepals ascending, 

 2 lin. long, h lin, broad at the base, whence they gradually taper to an 

 acute point, thinly pubescent. Corolla about 2 in. long, straight ; tube 

 18 lin. long, 2|- lin. in diam. at the inflated base, gradually narrowing 

 to Ij lin. in diam. at the middle, then dilating into a funnel-shaped 

 mouth 4 J lin. in diam., glabrous outside ; lobes erect, cohering at their 

 tips, 10-11 lin, long, linear from a deltoid base, replicate, and in the 

 folded state h lin. broad, inside rather densely covered with woolly white 

 hairs. — Hook, Niger Fl. 457. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Accra, Don ! 



The above is compiled partly from Don's brief description and partly from the 

 type specimen in the British Museum, which consists of a single stem o.V in. long, 

 with the top broken ofP, and a single detached flower, which I have not dissected, 

 'i'he above measurements are taken from the dried flower, the colour of which is 

 pallid with a dark base to the tube, but Don describes it as dark purple-brown. 



46. C. filipendula, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 150. 

 Rhizome short ; roots fusiform. Stem solitary, erect, simple, about 1^ 

 ft, high, y\j in. thick, puberulous, subscabrid. Leaves very shortly 

 petiolate, herbaceous, f-1 J in. long, \-l in. broad, ovate-oblong, obtuse 

 or somewhat acute, mucronulate, scabrid-puberulous on both sides. 

 Inflorescence terminal, racemose, about 4 J in. long ; pedicels short, 

 stout, puberulous. Sepals 2-2-J lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, puberu- 

 lous, ciliolate. Corolla 1J-1| in. long; tube 6-8 lin. long, globose- 

 inflated at the base, broadly dilated at the mouth, minutely puberulous 

 outside; lobes as long as or rather longer than the tube, about 8 lin. 

 long, broadly ovate, connate at the apex, recurved along the margins 

 (replicate?). Outer corona Ij lin, long, cup-shaped, 10-toothed; teeth 

 linear, glabrous ; inner coronal-lobes 2 lin. long, linear, erect, dorsally 

 connected at the base to the outer corona by 5 partitions, glabrous. — 

 Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 272, fig. 81, D, and 273. 



Iioiver Guinea. Angola : near Cissacola in the neighbourhood of the River 

 Coango, Mechow, 5o3b, 



47. C. abyssinica, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 644. Tuber J-1 in. 

 in diam., subglobose. Stem |-1 ft. high, erect, simple, not twining, 

 hairy. Leaves herbaceous ; petiole 1-1 J lin. long ; blade 1-1 J in. long, 

 H-5 lin. broad, varying from oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate-linear, 

 with scattered hairs on both sides. Flowers 1-3 (or more ?) at the 

 uppermost nodes (reduced sessile umbels), forming a moderately 

 compact, terminal, racemose inflorescence; bracts 1-1 J lin. long, subu- 

 late, hairy ; pedicels \-\ in. long, clothed with spreading hairs, as are 

 also the 2 J lin. long subulate sepals. Corolla straight, 11 lin. long; 



